Dallas Cowboys tight end Dalton Schultz. Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports

Cowboys TE Dalton Schultz likens team's 0-1 start to a storm

By Andrew Kulha | Last updated 9/12/22

The Dallas Cowboys didn't look good in Week 1 as the ageless wonder, Tom Brady, marched into Texas and led his Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-3 win.

Frankly, saying the Cowboys didn't look good is an understatement. Anytime you put up only three points in an NFL game, you've had some issues.

Defensively, they allowed Leonard Fournette to rush 21 times for 127 yards. On the flip side, Ezekiel Elliott rushed just 10 times for 52 yards, and quarterback Dak Prescott was an abysmal 14-of-29 passing for 134 yards, no touchdowns, and an interception. The Cowboys were a measly 3-of-15 on third downs, 2-of-5 on fourth down, and they committed 10 penalties compared to just five from the Bucs.

On top of it all, Prescott left in the fourth quarter with a hand injury that will require surgery, meaning he'll now miss multiple weeks of action.

Dak Prescott requires surgery on his hand, will miss multiple weeks. pic.twitter.com/mhc2s7aHzz
— NFL (@NFL) September 12, 2022

There's bad, and then there's the type of bad the Cowboys experienced in Week 1.

That was a game Dallas will want to quickly forget, but tight end Dalton Schultz doesn't see it that way. In fact, he told the media after the game that he views the Week 1 struggles like a storm. Rather than run away from it and pretend it doesn't exist, he thinks the Cowboys need to lean into the adversity and hopefully come out on the other side a better team.

“The way I see it, it’s just a storm,” Schultz, via the Athletic. “You got two choices. You can either run away from the storm or you can run right into it. I know myself included, and everybody in this locker room, is running right into that motherf—. That is just our approach.”

The storm is not going to get easier for Dallas. Up next on the schedule is Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, fresh off an overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers and undoubtedly hungry to get back on track.

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